Google Local, search for local business

[TrafficProducer]

Google Local, search for local (USA) business Beta is here:-

http://local.google.com/

[robinev]

So where do you suppose these listings come from?

It looks like they might be using phone directory information and adding links to web pages if they can match the two.

I doubt they're parsing the web pages to find address info since some entries apparently don't have web pages.